...Hallyu began roughly 12 years ago when the rest of Asia discovered Korean soap operas. One of the breakthrough dramas was a series 'Winter Sonata' starring Choi Ji-woo & Bae Young-Joon. After that, more Korean dramas saw their way to foreign shores and Korean films and music started to follow suit. Korean marketing people started to see a Korea-centric trend. They dubbed this flow "The Korean Wave" or Hallyu....

The hit TV series “That Winter, the Wind
Blows” has broken into the Gaon singles chart with its two original
scores, while Kim Jae-joong marked glorious comeback on Gaon albums
chart with the repackaged mini-album “Y.”

The melodrama proved
its overwhelming popularity by landing its two original soundtracks at
No. 1 and No. 3, namely The One’s “A Winter Story” and Gummy’s “Snow
Flower,” during the week of February 24 to March 2, Gaon’s official
website showed on Thursday.

The two solo artists’ mature and
mesmerizing voices went well with the drama’s sad love story and
recorded a double hit, sandwiching top boy band SHINee’s new title song
“Dream Girl” on the runner-up spot.

While SISTAR 19, who
attained the third trophy on the KBS music show “Music Bank” last week,
slid down to No. 4 with its smash hit “Gone Not Around Any Longer,”
young musician brother and sister Akdong Musician rounded off the top
five with the new self-written tune “Is It Ramyun.”

On
the other hand, Hallyu star Kim Jae-joong marked a successful return
and sat atop the chart with his new album “Y,” the repackaged version of
the first mini-album “I.”

Six-member boy group Teen Top ranked
at the second position with the first studio album “No. 1,” while SHINee
fell down two spots after topping the chart last week with its first
chapter of the third full-length album, “Dream Girl: the misconceptions
of you.”